Word: prefect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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There had been a parade of wounded veterans in protest against debt ratification. The police had tried to stop the parade. In the Chamber, Deputy Maurice Dormann, representing the veterans, rose to make Minister of the Interior André Tardieu admit that during the parade, the bland face of Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe had been twice slapped by an outraged woman. Minister Tardieu assured the honorable deputy that the face of M. Chiappe had not so been slapped. Veteran Dormann declared he had seen it with his own eyes. He suddenly shouted: "As a Deputy, as a war veteran...
...stew of vegetarianism, physical culture and pagan worship. The outstanding feature is that all devotees must live in a state of complete spectacular nudity.* Much publicity has been given the Nudist colony on an island in the Seine near Paris. Lively have been their arguments, moral, economic, religious, with Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe over the matter of bathing trunks. Some weeks ago a young French reporter paid a secret visit to the Nudist colony. So depressing, so disillusioning was his published account of the flabby spectacle that the romantic French press and public lost interest in the entire business...
...names listed there were no actors or cinemactors, no athletes. Some readers of Dimanche Illustré considered tire tycoon Andre Michelin worthy of immortality and Paris' moral Prefect of Police, Jean Chiappe...
With Thomas Testa for an object lesson, Prefect Jean Chiappe of the Paris police took extraordinary precautions to make May Day in Paris peaceful. He mobilized cavalry, infantry, machine gunners; arrested and temporarily detained nearly 3,400 people before they could start a-Maying...
...Paris has been going through a bigger police shake-up than the Grover Whalen raids in New York, ever since last Spring. Our Grover Whalen-sartorial perfection and all-is Prefect of Police Jean Chiappe [TIME, Jan. 9, 1928]. He has absolutely cleaned up the Paris 'peep shows,' which you might compare to the speakeasies of New York. You can't drop in anywhere and see odd sights in Montmartre nowadays...